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During the 18th century, letters, written on academic subjects like mathematics, were exchanged between scholars across Europe. Wealthy aristocrats and their tutors penned many of those letters when they were on the famed “Grand Tour” of ancient sites in Europe.

Through a pioneering digital visualization project Giovanna Ceserani, an associate professor of classics, to map the routes of thousands of British and Irish elite travelers who went to Italy in the heyday of the Grand Tour.

Ceserani’s digital humanities project, the Grand Tour Travelers, has uncovered unexpectedly close connections between intellectuals, illuminated the rise and fall of cities, and at various times, offered warnings about how visualization can sometimes prove misleading.